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Participants: Jasmine, Amelia, Chuxi

Jasmine fetched Aunty Nelly to SGH earlier in the afternoon to renew her Medifund application.
Chuxi and I joined them at around 4pm at Outram polyclinic. Aunty Nelly was supposed to see her previous doctor, Dr Darren (? stated in her appointment card) for a review after her recent discharge from hospital.

Aunty Nelly complained of pain in her left upper arm and she doesn't like anyone to support her by that arm. She was prescribed Lignocaine gel by the doctor for pain relief. She was also given a refill of her previous medicine (yellow capsules) to be taken every night for pain relief and to help her sleep. The doctor was mostly concerned that she might have another fall again. He intends to contact the social worker taking care of Aunty Nelly from AIC to arrange for meals on wheels for her on weekdays to reduce her community fall risk. (Aunty Nelly currently cooks her own meals/joins Aunty Lee Ah Hoong at her house for meals) He mentioned that he suggested this previously but Aunty Nelly's brother, Micheal, did not like the idea and said that he will take care of her instead. He also advised Aunty Nelly to continue going for exercises every day at the elderly activity centre at Block 8 Level 4 and to elevate her legs when she is resting to prevent her feet from swelling.

She wanted to request for more Tamoxifen (for her breast cancer) but we told the doctor that she still has a lot at home so it was not necessary. Her measured blood pressure at the polyclinic was low but the doctor said it was fine. We also consulted the doctor about her cough with phlegm but the doctor said that Aunty Nelly was generally very healthy but she just has to be careful not to have another fall.
He will review Aunty Nelly during her next appointment on May 16.

We fetched Aunty Nelly back to her flat after that. She has difficulty standing up after sitting down as her legs have no strength. We also helped her to apply a moisturizer on her arms (given by the doctor on a previous visit) which helps to relieve itchiness. Aunty Nelly may have some difficulty applying the moisturizer and lignocaine gel so please check with her during the next elderly service :)
Aunty Nelly also requested that we bring her for her dental appointment. She needs a replacement for her dentures and the social worker taking care of her will arrange an appointment for her.

Things to note:
1. Check whether Aunty Nelly can apply the lignocaine gel and moisturizer by herself / has friends to help her apply.
2. Check with the social worker when Aunty Nelly's dental appointment is.

participants: Li xiongyan, Li manqing, xie yanmo, tang siyi, lim kawoon, yang yanqiliu
wang gejing cuikaiwen

1. the muslim food from arts canteen only provides us 21 packs of food but the manager of arts canteen gives them money of 22 packs, so we need to tell the managers if the food is not enough

2. aunty roseita need us to buy the ointment for her to help her relieving itching.

3. uncle Chan Kum Leng is quite unhappy as his vicious neibour always blame him claim the life od another person but accutually, it is not his fault. also, this neibour always takes his food. but one fortunate thing is that one of his friend paied the house rent for him . try to talk with him,enlighten him hope this will help him overcome the unhappiness.

4.grocery aunty is quite unhappy, she lies on the bed and refuse to open the door for us at the beginning(may be she does not have the strength to get up herself ). after a quite long time we find the key and open the door. he looks very tired and only est apples and biscuit. after feeding her the food and talk with her. she becomes happier. try as much as possible to talk to her. her contact num is 62237025

5. uncle Ali is back !

Members: Tingting, Xiongyan, Zhiying, Manqing, Zijiang, Yuyu, Yonghua, ChaiEng

Details:

Mandarin Uncle side:

Block11 #12-98
According to Mandarin Uncle's neighbor, Mandarin Uncle have passed away one week ago and his brother have taken care of his funeral. We know that he is now in a better place. May he rest in peace.

Block 12
#04-80
Blind uncle is confirmed to be at a nursing home. We will stop sending food to him from next week onward. The extra pack of rice will then be for Aunty Lee Ah Hoong.
#08-48
Auntie Nelly still cannot stand after squatting down. Took her bed sheet and clothes to wash. She is in good mood and finally we know her favorite food stall - Science canteen yong tau foo. She prefers to have dentures instead of a pair of hearing aid.  Someone introduced her a dental clinic which promised to give her discount for her dentures, which makes her very tempted to get one asap.

Block 13
#06-24
Took the lucky drawn water dispenser back. She prefers to have a smaller, lighter electric kettle. Must settle this asap since it's been almost a month since the item is bought.

Bedbug Uncle side:
#14-133
Uncle Ali might be back next week, he's away for almost a month by that time.

Block 51
#09-81
Groceries aunty is in better mood today. She still cannot have a normal diet since she still vomits whatever she ate but at least now she's taking some fruits. She is angry at her son for scolding her but she understands that he is in difficult situation now(Jobs and taking care of her and problems). She was really happy to hear that we are planning to get her a new wheelchair. She thanked us over and over for this. She prefers normal wheelchair since its going to be hard for her to use electric wheelchair.

Things to do next week:
1. Check Grocery Auntie’s condition.
2. Try to get electric kettle.
3. Check whether Uncle Ali is back or not
4. Return auntie Nelly’s bed sheet and clothes.
5.Food for Aunty Lee Ah Hoong from next week onward.

Members: Sun Shangya, Li Lu, Jasmine Ng, Ruth Ong, Stephanie Tan, Liao Xinyue, Goh Suzanne

There are only seven members today as Ouwa who was supposed to join can't make it in the end. This week we need to collect foods from Science, Biz, Engin and Arts Canteen. Xinyue was there in Science canteen early in the morning so she collected the food and waited for us at Science bus stop. The fruits (they gave jelly this week) were collected on Friday evening from Biz Canteen. We then split into two groups to collect food from Arts and Engin while the rest stayed at Eusoff bus stop packing the unpacked jelly into plastic bags provided by Biz fruit stall.

Details

Mandarin Uncle side:
Blk #12, 03-60
Auntie Roseita was there waiting for us when we reached. She asked when can she get the photos from last week's CNY dinner.
Blk #12, 04-80
A friend of blind uncle came to us while we were packing the food and collected for him. According to him blind uncle will not be staying there from next week onwards and he will move to Elderly nursing home. The goodie bag from CNY dinner was not passed to him as his friends left before we have chance to do so.
Blk #12, 06-74
The goodie bag from CNY dinner was passed to Ah Ma Chan.
Blk #13, 04-30
An extra goodie bag from CNY dinner was given to New uncle.
Blk #13, 06-24
Arthritis Ah Ma is down there so we passed her the food. She said she has no idea on how to use the hot water dispenser she won during CNY dinner. She said she is not free so would like us to teach her how to use it next time round.

Bedbug Uncle Side:
Blk #3, 03-101
Uncle Lee Whay gave us two $10 Fairprice Vouchers as he don't know where can he find a nearby Fairprice to redeem the vouchers. He asked us to buy groceries for him using the vouchers and bring it to him next time round. He prefer us to buy mainly mineral water and canned soft drinks.
Blk #3, 14-127
An extra packet of food was given to aunty Leow. She told us that Uncle Ali is still oversea and will not be back for few weeks but she is not sure the exact timing.
Blk #3, 14-133
Uncle Ali is still oversea according to Aunty Leow and will not be in for few weeks.
Blk #51, 09-81
There are patches of bruises on Groceries Aunty's left arm. She said she was admitted to hospital since the Monday before and was discharged yesterday. She said 20 injections were given to her and it costs her $1500 for the treatment. According to her, she vomited and fainted after having some home-cooked porridge and fish. She also mentioned about enema was done on her, and she has to drink 100plus everyday so we suspected that her condition is due to food poisoning. A lot of medicine were given to her and we found mostly vitamins and supplements inside. She needs our help to wash her bed sheet this week.

Things to do next week:
1. Teach arthritis ah ma how to use the hot water dispenser.
2. Check whether blind uncle is really no longer staying there or not.
3. Return the bed sheet to Groceries aunty and check her condition.
4. Pass uncle lee whay the drinks/groceries that we bought for him using the vouchers.
5. Check when Uncle Ali will be back with aunty leow again.

Members: Jasmine, Liao jia, Victor, Li Lu, Yang Yanqiliu, Ee Hwee, Xie Yanmo, Liu Ximeng

Food Collection: We collected all food from Art canteen today. The auntie from vegetarian provided us biscuits as CNY presents for our elderlies. These biscuits can put in goody bags and outgiving to elderlies at Chinese New Year dinner later today which will be held at Red Star Restaurant, so they were put in Ee Hwee' s room, temporarily.

Details

Mandarin Uncle Side:
Blk 11 #106-08
Auntie Ma was not at home, we hung the food outside her room. Since we should inform her that the CNY dinner was delayed for half an hour tonight, we left an informal note on her door.
Our members found her at home when we picked her up for CNY dinner at 6p.m. She explained that she went out with her sister this morning.
#12-98
Mandarin Uncle still hospitalized.
Blk 12#80-04
Uncle Kee Khim Lai (Blind Uncle) still not in since the contradictions between him and his neighbor, but we also left a on his door. Sadly, we cannot find him neither when we wanted to pick him up for CNY dinner.
#48-08
Auntie Nelly was not home, and her neighbor told us she was at her brother's house since un-optimistic health conditions. Her brother also had a call with Tingting to cancel Auntie Nelly's attendance of dinner of tonight.
Blk 13# 30-04
Uncle watt Choon Sng(New uncle) was initially not around, so our CNY-dinner note was left on his door. However, he was "caught" by us having Dou Hua at the snack store when we were on the way to have lunch. So we told him about the postponed dinner. He appeared on the CNY dinner and enjoyed the food.

Bedbug Uncle Side:
Groceries Auntie and Cute Ah Ma were not around, other elderlies were all informed by us.
Blk 52 #47-06
Our members found there is an announcement for Bedbug uncle which posted on December of last year. It is a reminder of payment of rent fee and says if uncle cannot pay the fee after one month time (this Jan); the fee will become double as punishment. Victor found people in change the HDB to talk about this, but have not come up a solution.

Special Thanks to our dear friends from Eusoff Choir to present a wonderful performance during the CNY dinner tonight  Hope everyone enjoyed the dinner also thanks for the EVC seniors came back to join us for the dinner. Last but not least, let’s cheer for two cute MCs of tonight: Tang Siyi and Chai Eng!